Articles published on Friday, February 1, 2008
I have determined that I must stick to my promise to share the views of a knowledgeable analyst regarding how the rich world and its specially-created institutions perpetuate poverty around the always “developing” and “under-developed” world.
Dominica’s announced decision to sign on to ALBA-the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas-has been the subject of some media comment because of its supposed undermining of Caricom.
A Guyhoc Park man was on Wednesday remanded for allegedly unlawfully and maliciously wounding his reputed wife.
A 26-year-old man who allegedly raped a woman he met at a creek was yesterday remanded to prison when he was brought before Magis-trate Melissa Robertson-Ogle in the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court.
This is the dark time, my love, All round the land brown beetles crawl about The shining sun is hidden in the sky Red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow This is the dark time, my love, It is the season of oppression, dark metal, and tears.
Scotia Bank has announced that its operations in Guyana last year realised a record profit before tax of $1.4 bn, representing a 33 per cent increase over 2006.
Construction work on the Robb and Camp streets building being erected to house some of the departments of Republic Bank is now expected to be completed by the end of March this year, accordingly to a senior official of the bank.
Some months ago the City Engineer’s office expressed concern over the various transgressions of the building code arising out of the virtual transformation of the appearance of ‘commercial’ Georgetown.
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Introduction: In macroeconomics, a recession is a decline in a country’s gross domestic product (GDP), or negative real economic growth.
Part I I was asked by a dear friend of mine to offer guidance on how companies in Guyana can achieve rapid success in improved quality of product and services while exceeding customer expectations.
Even as consumers continue to agonize over the recent spate of increases in rice prices, retail vendors were this week bellyaching over official intervention to provide the commodity at a price below the current market price.
President Bharrat Jagdeo recently informed the National Competitiveness Council (NCC) while chairing a meeting of that body that negotiations with the incumbent telecommunications operator, Guyana Telephone & Telegraph company, will be commencing on Tuesday.
Due to the recent suspension of trading on the Guyana Stock Exchange the Stabroek Business will be publishing no stock market updates in the immediate future.
A local business and education technology service provider has secured a contract with the University of the West Indies under which it will launch and host the on-line component of the University’s Executive Diploma in Management.
A group of local art and craft producers set up to promote the local and international promotion of Guyana’s craft industry has disclosed that it will engage state agencies and the commercial banking sector with a view to securing financial support for creation of a sustainable arts and craft industry in Guyana Kulture Ambassadors – the leading promoters of Rastafarian art and craft in Guyana – is seeking to use the occasion of Carifesta X which will be held in Guyana in August to create “a permanent and viable craft industry on a sound business footing,” according to David Morrison (Ras Daweed) owner of the Kulture Embassz, a craft enterprise opened late last year in Kitty.
The Guyana Table Tennis Association (GTTA) has been approved by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) to receive a grant worth approximately US$7000.00, GTTA general secretary Godfrey Munroe said yesterday.
First it was Austin ‘Jack’ Warner, on Wednesday, it was Chinese coach Cheng Jian Hua.
Georgetown football fans are in for a treat when the inaugural Banks Premium Beer 16-team knockout tournament gets cracking with a feature double header card at Tucville ground in La Penitence this evening.
The number two, might turn out to be Clyde Butts’s unlucky number.
She is the junior Sportswoman-of-the-Year but few persons are aware that Ashley Khalil is a multi-talented athlete who last year represented her country at the regional level in two Caribbean championships.
Guyana’s Golden Jaguars quest to clinch a spot in the 2010 World Cup football finals in South Africa will begin in earnest in June at the start of the Second Stage of the CONCACAF (The Confederation of North, Central America and the Caribbean Football) qualification series.
The East Coast Cricket Board will now conduct its Under-15 two-day net sessions on 2nd and 3rd February at Enmore Community Centre ground from 09:30hrs.
The Linden Amateur Basketball Association second division championships will resume from 7pm tonight at the Mackenzie Sports Club court with Toucans Basketball Club opposing Constabulary Clippers.
BOGRA, Bangladesh, CMC – West Indies Under-19s were frustrated by rain as their opening one-day match of the four-match series against the Bangladesh Under-19s was washed out here yesterday.
Twenty students drawn from clubs in the county of Berbice are expected to benefit from the Educational Awards Scheme which the Berbice Cricket Board of Control (BCBC) launched last Thursday at its office in New Amsterdam.
After playing most of their regular season games at the outdoor Burham Basketball Court, the Guyana Secondary Schools Basketball Associa-tion (GSSBA) has been granted permission to use the National Gymnasium.
Dear Editor, I find the statement from President Jagdeo very interesting, when asked about donor support in relation to crime, his reply was “They said they would help but what is their assistance?
Dear Editor, And now what? After all the appropriate things have been said, the platitudinous and sincere; after all the proper poses have been cast, what is to be done?
Dear Editor, I am enraged at the President’s inability to offer any solutions to the crisis facing our country.
Dear Editor, The Guyana Association of Professional Social Workers condemns the senseless killing of residents in Lusignan, and offers sincere condolences to the grieving families.
Dear Editor, On behalf of the Guyanese community in Grenada, I would like to extend deepest sympathy to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives at the hands of those maniacs last Saturday.
Dear Editor, Kaieteur News’s gruesome and shocking images of the victims of the Lusignan killing displayed on its front page, crossed the line of decency and serious journalism.
Dear Editor, I usually respect Mr. Vishnu Bisram’s analysis and objectivity as a pollster whenever there is a political contest in the Caribbean.
Dear Editor, The gruesome deaths of 11 persons in Lusignan have brought to the fore the fragility of our race relations, the divisiveness, and the willingness of those who hold power to maximize on political points even during national grief.
Dear Editor, In a letter captioned “Many soldiers were upset by the President’s remarks” Mr.
Dear Editor, Firstly, I extend my deepest sympathy to all the bereaved relatives of those killed at Lusignan; and I offer my prayers for peace for all Guyanese at this volatile time.
Dear Editor, Our nation has witnessed one of the worst atrocities of its time.
Dear Editor, Another dictator will not have to answer for crimes committed against his people.
Dear Editor, Last Sunday I attended the meeting at the Mon Repos School where President Bharrat Jagdeo spoke to residents in outrage at the slaying of the Lusignan eleven.
With expressions of intense grief, Lusignan bid goodbye to ten of its slain residents in ceremonies by three different faiths yesterday.
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The security forces yesterday morning arrested five suspected gunmen during a major offensive in Buxton, hours after they killed two others during a gun battle in the backdam on Wednesday evening.
Outrage overtook grief at the Lyken’s Funeral Parlour yesterday morning, as upset relatives of the deceased army corporal Ivor Williams expressed disappointment at the “inferior coffin” provided by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for his burial.
A motorcyclist was shot dead in Campbellville last night just after 10pm.
Government’s intervention to help bring relief to consumers in the face of the increased price for rice on the local market kicked into gear Monday with the commodity being available at $325 per gallon at three locations in the city.
The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has called on those who hold high public or political office to avoid usurping the police function, even in speaking impromptu, by identifying by direct words or implication the so-called perpetrators of the Lusignan massacre, or its intellectual authors or those who ‘centrally directed’ it or any community which allegedly inspired it.
The Mayor and City Council says it is conducting an audit of its public relations department.
The two major local beverage manufacturers and a key importer are to write the Minister of Finance Dr Ashni Singh to raise their concerns about smuggling and to request a meeting on the issue.
President Bharrat Jagdeo wants the main opposition PNCR to publicly acknowledge that Buxton is a safe haven for criminals before he engages in any discussion with it on crime and security but opposition leader Robert Corbin says it’s a pity the President is indulging in such behaviour at a time like this.
The Anglican Church in Guyana has denounced the Lusignan murders as a “barbaric deed” and assured the bereaved of its sympathy.
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) in expressing its categorical condemnation of the slaying of 11 citizens at Lusignan last Saturday said all peace loving Guyanese should speak out against this atrocity and the government must take immediate corrective measures to avoid any recurrence.
Independence activist and a former member of the PPP Cabinet from 1961 to 1964, Cedric Vernon Nunes died in Birmingham, UK on January 30, 2008 after a period of illness.
